Coloratura Arias for Soprano - G. Schirmer Opera Anthology| Advanced Voice and Piano Sheet Music Book for Classical Singers | Opera Anthology with ...

by Robert L. Larsen (Editor)

(Vocal Collection). An excellent volume of coloratura arias has been added to the G. Schirmer Opera Anthology series. With 30 arias in English, Italian, German, French and Russian, this is the largest collection of coloratura operatic excerpts ever published. Contents: ALCINA: Tornami a vagheggiar * ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: Grossmachtige Prinzessin... Noch glaub' ich dem einen ganz mich gehorend * UN BALLO IN MASCHERA: Volta la terrea * IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Una voce poco fa * LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN: Les oiseaux dans la charmille (Doll Song) * LES DEUX AVARES: Plus de depit, plus de tristesse * DINORAH: Ombre legere (Shadow Song) * DON PASQUALE: Quel guardo il cavaliere... So anch'io la virtu magica * DIE ENTFUHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL: Durch Zartlichkeit und Schmeicheln * LA FILLE DU REGIMENT: Chacun le sait * DIE FLEDERMAUS: Mein Herr Marquis, Spiel' ich die Unschuld vom Lande * HAMLET: A vos jeux, mes amis... Partagez-vous mes fleurs! (Ophelia's Mad Scene) * LAKME: Ah! Ou va la jeune indoue (Bell Song) * LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX: Ah, tardai troppo... O luce di quest'anima * LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR: Regnava nel silenzio, Il dolce suono... Spargi d'amaro pianto (Mad Scene) * MANON LESCAUT: C;est l'histoire amoureuse (Laughing Song) MARTHA: Den Teuren zu versohnen * MIGNON: Je suis Titania * THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE: Poor wand'ring one * I PURITANI: O rendetemi la speme... Qui la voce * DER SCHAUSPIELDIREKTOR: Da Schlagt die Abschiedsstunde * LA SONNAMBULA: Care compagne... Come per me sereno, Ah! non credea... Ah! non giunge * THE TELEPHONE: Hello! Oh, Margaret, it's you * THE TEMPEST: Vocalise * DIE ZAUBERFLOTE: O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn, Der Holle Rache * ZOLOTOJ PETUSHOK (The Golden Cockerel): Otvet' mne, zorkoe svetilo (Hymn to the Sun)

Genres: Music

344 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Robert Leroy Larsen (November 28, 1934 - March 21, 2021) was a celebrated conductor and stage director.

Educated at the University of Michigan and Indiana University, he founded Des Moines Metro Opera in 1973. He would serve as Conductor and Stage Director for nearly 120 productions over the Company's first 38 seasons.

Additionally, Larsen served as Chair of the Department of Music at Simpson for 33 years, teaching there for a total of 60 years, from 1957 to 2017. He received the Iowa Arts Award in 1990.